Friday's Five Scribes

Five blogposts published this week by fellow Scribers on the The Daily Scribe

1. Radical Torah: Lebanon through the Lens of Tisha B’Av Given the news events of recent weeks I found this a powerfully moving post, if only for the comment ‘just because we have a hammer, doesn’t mean everything is a nail’. Fascinating also for a Christian with a theological passion for the Old Testament (as we call it), to learn how the Jews interpret it.

2. World of Your Making: Rick Lord gives us a glimpse into his work of sermon preparation and his meditations on the transfiguration of Jesus in Glimpses of Reality.

3. Making Chutney: Chutney made me laugh, ruefully, with his reflections on 28 Things They Won’t Teach You at Seminary. Memories!

4. nathancolquhoun.com: Nathan calls for a redefinition of ‘the poor’ in The Kingdom:What Does Poor Even Mean?. As someone who works in what is officially one of the poorest communities in the United Kingdom, this was challenging.

5. Never Say Never: I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry at Hafidha’s post The Worship Show, but I understood. The issue is serious and painful, but the image of an auditorium of Unitarian Universalists doing the conga is priceless!

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